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Barze Elected President-Elect of the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys

At the 85th Annual Meeting of the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (ADTA) in Herradura, Costa Rica, BTNL founding partner, Bruce Barze, was elected President-Elect of the ADTA, along with the following officers and new board members:

  • President: A. Johnston Cox, Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A., Columbia, SC
  • President-Elect: R. Bruce Barze, Jr., BTNL, Birmingham, AL
  • Vice President: Ronald Austin, Jr., Grant Law, LLC, Chicago, IL
  • Treasurer: David W. Lauritzen, Cotton, Bledsoe, Tighe & Dawson, Midland, TX
  • Secretary: Jeanne Loftis, Baker Sterchi Cowden Rice, Portland, OR
  • Immediate Past President: Amanda Cialkowski, Nilan Johnson Lewis, PA, Minneapolis, MN

Class of 2029 Board Members:

  • Jessica J. Burgasser, Hawkins, Parnell & Young LLP, Buffalo, NY
  • Karen M. Herzog, Downs Ward Bender Herzog & Kintigh, P.A, Hunt Valley, MD
  • James R. Nieset, Jr., Porteous, Hainkel & Johnson, New Orleans, LA

About the ADTA: The Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (ADTA) is comprised of some of the finest trial attorneys in the various states of the United States and Canada. The ADTA invites only one defense trial attorney to be its prime member per one million in population from various jurisdictions who have a trial practice and devote a substantial portion of their professional time to defending businesses, insurance companies, or their insureds, associations, or governmental entities in civil litigation. An ADTA prime membership is a statement of the high regard in which that defense trial attorney is held by his or her peers in the defense trial bar of their city and state or province. For more information, visit https://www.adtalaw.com.

About Barze Taylor Noles Lowther LLC: Barze Taylor Noles Lowther LLC is a Birmingham, Alabama-based law firm with a national practice focused on litigation and insurance coverage issues. For more information, visitwww.btnllaw.com or follow @BTNL_law_firm.

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